I See Dead Peoples Books

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I See Dead People's Books is a group on LibraryThing that works to enter the libraries of famous dead people as LibraryThing catalogs.

[edit] Cataloging Guide

• Cataloging Guide

[edit] Completed libraries

• Thomas Jefferson
  • Contributors:
    • Partial Section(s): timspalding, benjfrank, scorbet, ijon
    • 1 Section: Goatface, collsers, nperrin, householdopera, ptcamn
    • 2 Sections: myshelves, rsterling, MMCM
    • 3+ Sections: jjlong, jbd1
• Danilo Kis
• Tupac Shakur
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Isabella Stewart Gardner.
• Sylvia Plath
• Marie Antoinette
  • Wiki
• Susan B. Anthony
• Alfred Deakin
• Walker Percy
• John Adams
  • Wiki
• Ezra Pound
• W.H. Auden
• Ernest Hemingway
  • Contributors:
    • Leader, 100 books: nperrin
    • 2450 books: spookykitten
    • 2350 books: christiguc
    • 1350 books: Rullakartiina
    • 1200 books: jjlong
• James Smithson
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• John Muir
• Samuel Johnson
• Mather Family (Increase, Cotton, &c.)
• Samuel Roth

[edit] Libraries in progress

• Benjamin Franklin
• James Joyce
• Carl Sandburg. See this thread.
• Sir Walter Scott.
  • User:WalterScottLibrary wiki page
  • See this thread.
• Gerald Gardner
• Daniel Garrison Brinton
• Eeva-Liisa Manner
• e.e. cummings
• Karen Blixen
• Rose Wilder Lane
• Charles Lamb
• John Dee
• Joseph Priestley
• John F. Kennedy

[edit] (Currently) Moribund Projects

• William Faulkner
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Robert E. Howard
• William Congreve
• Adam Smith
• Charles Darwin
• Theodore Dreiser
• Rembrandt

[edit] Proposed libraries

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Douglas Adams
• James Aswell
• Jane Austen
• Sir Thomas Browne
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Joseph Campbell
• Andrew & Elizabeth Craigie
• Francis Currer
• Theodore Dreiser
• Gustave Flaubert
• King George III
• Marija Gimbutas
• Goethe
• Thomas Grenville
• Sir Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover
• John Harvard
• Ben Jonson
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• C.S. Lewis
• Abraham Lincoln
• H.P. Lovecraft
• Mary Queen of Scots
• John Ramsey McCulloch catalogue on Google Books
• Catherine de Medici
• Herman Melville
• Gaston Miron not very practical online catalog
• John Milton
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Linus and Ava Pauling
• Samuel Pepys
• Madame de Pompadour
• Beatrix Potter
• Emory B. Remington
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Pieter Paul Rubens
• Lord Rutherford
• Friedrich von Schiller
• Joseph Smith
• John Steinbeck
• Jonathan Swift
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Edith Wharton
• William Whiting
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Wolfe
• Robert J. Wood
• Carter G. Woodson
• Leonard and Virginia Woolf
• W.B. Yeats